Michael Hunsaker, Tori Jade Lopez, Lauren Nicole Sherwood, Klea Blackhurst, JP Sarro, Gina Lamparella (Photo: Donald Kennedy) Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off By Fern Siegel on February 15, 2026 The premise of the off-Broadway musical Just Desserts: A Musical Bake-Off is simple: somewhere in the Midwest, there is a bake-off at the Jefferson County fair….
The Ensemble (Photo: Joan Marcus) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee By Matthew Roland on February 13, 2026 Remember back in school when you were told to stand up in front of your peers and read from a textbook? Now imagine raising the stakes: not simply reading what’s in front of you, but spelling…
Richard Chang (Photo: Jeremy Varner) Ai Yah Goy Vey! By Julia Polinsky on February 9, 2026 Richard Chang’s Ai Yah Goy Vey!, now at A.R.T./New York Theatres, is this winter’s offering from the Pan Asian Repertory. Subtitled “Adventures of a Dim Sun in Search of His Wanton Father,” the play’s junior-high level of punning humor…
Daniel Yaiullo (center), Zack Calhoon (right) (Photo: Ben Hider) Hans Litten: The Jew Who Cross-Examined Hitler By Fern Siegel on February 8, 2026 There is a price to pay when you speak truth to power. And none more horrible than the fate of Hans Litten, a lawyer who called Adolf Hitler to the witness stand…
Tora Nogami Alexander, Morgan Morse, and David M. Lutken (Photo: Ben Hider) The Porch on Windy Hill By Julia Polinsky on February 2, 2026 Here’s a run-don’t-walk moment: if you’re ready to warm up this deep-chill winter, go see The Porch on Windy Hill, the “new play with old music” written by Sherry Stregack Lutken,…
An Ark at The Shed (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) An Ark By Deirdre Donovan on February 2, 2026 With An Ark, The Shed and Tin Drum unveil the world premiere of what they describe as the first play created for and in mixed reality, a work that replaces physical presence with one-to-one digital intimacy. Written…
Owen Teague, Abbey Lee (Photo: Emilio Madrid) Blackout Songs By Julia Polinsky on February 2, 2026 In Blackout Songs, the Olivier-nominated play by Joe White running at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, a young man and young woman meet at what’s clearly meant to be an AA meeting. Church-y looking basement, coffee setup,…
Sophia Lillis, Kran Brar, Justin H. Min (Photo: T Charles Erickson) Data By Joel Benjamin on February 2, 2026 Data, by Matthew Libby, is a quietly frightening, revelatory play, now running at the Lucille Lortel theater. Data slowly creeps into the brain as it reveals its secrets. First produced at the Arena Stage in 2024,…
Anne Gridley (Photo: Maria Baranova) Watch Me Walk By Julia Polinsky on January 27, 2026 Soho Rep’s new production, Watch Me Walk, is an intermittently funny, often nuts, pissed-off pity party piece of avant garde theater created by and starring Anne Gridley. Anne has Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, a rare degenerative neurological disease that really, really…
Hamish Linklater, Miriam Silverman, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Dylan Baker (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) The Disappear By Julia Polinsky on January 26, 2026 The Disappear, Erica Schmidt’s clever, talkative take on the marriage of tragedy, comedy, art, creativity, and, well, marriage, is now open at Audible’s Minetta Lane theater. As Schmidt directs the play, the intimate space…